The role of Apache Atlas in the open metadata ecosystem
Introducing Apache Atlas Apache Atlas emerged as an Apache incubator project in May 2015. It is scoped to provide an open source implementation for metadata management and governance. The initial focus was the Apache Hadoop environment although Apache Atlas has no dependencies on the Hadoop platform itself. At its core, Apache Atlas has a graph database for storing metadata, a search capability based on Apache Lucene and a simple notification service based on Apache Kafka. There is a type definition language for describing the metadata stored in the graph and standard APIs for populating metadata, from business glossary terms, classification tags, data sources and lineage. The start of an ecosystem What makes Apache Atlas different from other metadata solutions is that it is designed to ship with the platform where the data is stored. It is, in fact, a core component of the data platform. This means the different processes and engines that run on the ...